At Turbonomic Ben ensures we continue to deliver unique value in our customers' hybrid cloud environments. He decided to join Turbonomic after spending too much time watching dev blame ops and ops blame dev while users still did not get the experience they wanted. Ben has over 15 year of experience in the enterprise software space first as developer and later as a product manager.

Why You Need Demand-Driven Application Control

Earlier this week we announced general availability of VMTurbo Operations Manager v5.1. In a recent blog post Charles Crouchman, our CTO, shared more detail on one of the key improvements in this release our Application Control Module.

Why is this a key part to our latest release?

Think about it – why do companies build data centers in the first place? For most, such infrastructure exists to support the applications that are the lifeblood of their business – the manifestation of their mission.

But if the reason for a data center is the applications it supports, why is it that we’re focusing on the infrastructure supply without understanding application demand – and worse, drowning in alerts generated by old-school bottom-up monitoring tools that leave users with the heavy lifting of figuring out what actually went wrong. In a world where the complexity created by distributed, multi-tier applications is driving the data center beyond human scale, simple monitoring is no longer enough.